@brittarnhild
For Christmas I got The History of Bees by the Norwegian author Maja Lunde. A thick book, 450 pages, and when we flew south to the Canary Island some days ago, I brought the book with me to read on the plane. A perfect choice. The book tells, as the title indicates, the history of bees, and does so through three different people, William, a depressed biologist, family father and seed merchant in England in 1852. George, a bee keeper in the USA in 2007 and Tao who works with hand pollinating in China in 2098.
Bees are what keeps the stories together, and as the tales unfold you find that they are interwoven in more than one way. The death of bees, a fact that has been a concern for the world for several years now. Lunde makes us belive not only the past and the currant tales, but also the one set in the future, and thouh showing us the dark, depressed side of life as it can be without bees, the end of the book is clear: hope.
AS far as I can see from the Norwegian publisher´s site the rights to the book is sold to many countries already, but not to any English speaking ones. At least not yet.
